The Experts below are selected from a list of 246 Experts worldwide ranked by ideXlab platform
Ingrid H. Rima - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
-
Class Conflict and Adam Smith's “Stages of Social History”
Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1998Co-Authors: Ingrid H. RimaAbstract:The Wealth of Nations (WN) is not a book from which we expect much enlightenment about Class Conflict. In spite of well-known passages referring to the diverging interests of workers, landlords and capitalists, the impression most have of WN is one of relative harmony among the Classes. Nevertheless, Book III, “Of the different Progress of Opulence in different Nations,” which is the briefest and also the least studied of the five books comprising WN, provides considerable insight into the historical origin of Conflict among social Classes that derive from economic causes, and the circumstances under which Conflict promises to become a characteristic feature of the economic process in any society.1 A re-examination of Adam Smith's theory of natural price in the context of the “stages of social history” developed in Book III, leads to interpreting the prospect for Class Conflict as a more integral and substantive part of WN than is generally recognized by historians of economic thought.
Derek Hyra - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
-
Racial Uplift? Intra‐Racial Class Conflict and the Economic Revitalization of Harlem and Bronzeville
City & Community, 2006Co-Authors: Derek HyraAbstract:The study of revitalizing African American urban neighborhoods is needed to understand how race, Class, and politics influence community development. While numerous investigations of urban neighborhoods stress inter-racial Conflict, few explore intra-racial Class discord. Class antagonism within black America is a controversial and debated topic. Several scholars claim that the common experience of racism has led to social and political unity among African Americans. However, others predict that with greater economic differentiation, shared feelings of social and political commonality will decrease. The economic transformation of Harlem in New York City and Bronzeville in Chicago, two historic African American communities, provides valuable insight into the importance of Class Conflict to community change. After decades of economic abandonment, these areas are experiencing a resurgence of residential and commercial investments, triggered, in part, by the return of the black middle Class. Based on a 4-year, comparative ethnographic investigation, using extensive participant observation, interviews, and archival data, this study reveals the Conflict between lower- and upper-income residents. I highlight the process by which members of the black middle Class translate their preferences for community improvement, through local organizations, by advocating for the removal of the poor from these once low-income neighborhoods. I argue that intra-racial Class antagonism plays a critical role in the economic development of these communities, and assess whether the redevelopment of Harlem and Bronzeville can be considered “racial uplift.” This study supports the notion that Class Conflict is essential for understanding community change and the black experience in urban America.
-
racial uplift intra racial Class Conflict and the economic revitalization of harlem and bronzeville
City & Community, 2006Co-Authors: Derek HyraAbstract:The study of revitalizing African American urban neighborhoods is needed to understand how race, Class, and politics influence community development. While numerous investigations of urban neighborhoods stress inter-racial Conflict, few explore intra-racial Class discord. Class antagonism within black America is a controversial and debated topic. Several scholars claim that the common experience of racism has led to social and political unity among African Americans. However, others predict that with greater economic differentiation, shared feelings of social and political commonality will decrease. The economic transformation of Harlem in New York City and Bronzeville in Chicago, two historic African American communities, provides valuable insight into the importance of Class Conflict to community change. After decades of economic abandonment, these areas are experiencing a resurgence of residential and commercial investments, triggered, in part, by the return of the black middle Class. Based on a 4-year, comparative ethnographic investigation, using extensive participant observation, interviews, and archival data, this study reveals the Conflict between lower- and upper-income residents. I highlight the process by which members of the black middle Class translate their preferences for community improvement, through local organizations, by advocating for the removal of the poor from these once low-income neighborhoods. I argue that intra-racial Class antagonism plays a critical role in the economic development of these communities, and assess whether the redevelopment of Harlem and Bronzeville can be considered “racial uplift.” This study supports the notion that Class Conflict is essential for understanding community change and the black experience in urban America.
Tiago De Luca - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
-
casa grande senzala domestic space and Class Conflict in casa grande and que horas ela volta
2017Co-Authors: Tiago De LucaAbstract:This chapter analyzes two films that reflect the social changes that have taken place in Brazilian society after the social governments of Presidents Lula and Dilma: Casa grande/Casa Grande, or The Ballad of Poor Jean, (Fellipe Barbosa, 2014) and Que horas ela volta?/The Second Mother, (Anna Muylaert, 2015). Both films portray the social dynamics in upper-middle-Class households, where cleaning maids live in the back rooms, which comments on the colonial past of the slave owning families. The chapter contends that the films make use of specific spatial strategies to convey social and Class Conflict, thereby revealing new subjectivities that trespass invisible spatial barriers and contest the rigid identities of Class that have been historically in place in Brazilian society.
-
‘Casa Grande & Senzala’: Domestic Space and Class Conflict in Casa Grande and Que Horas Ela Volta?
Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema, 2017Co-Authors: Tiago De LucaAbstract:This chapter analyzes two films that reflect the social changes that have taken place in Brazilian society after the social governments of Presidents Lula and Dilma: Casa grande/Casa Grande, or The Ballad of Poor Jean, (Fellipe Barbosa, 2014) and Que horas ela volta?/The Second Mother, (Anna Muylaert, 2015). Both films portray the social dynamics in upper-middle-Class households, where cleaning maids live in the back rooms, which comments on the colonial past of the slave owning families. The chapter contends that the films make use of specific spatial strategies to convey social and Class Conflict, thereby revealing new subjectivities that trespass invisible spatial barriers and contest the rigid identities of Class that have been historically in place in Brazilian society.
Todd Hedrick - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
-
Reifying and reconciling Class Conflict: From Hegel’s estates through Habermas’ interchange roles
European Journal of Social Theory, 2013Co-Authors: Todd HedrickAbstract:This article examines the role of Class divisions in critical social theory through Habermas’ theory of law and democracy. It begins with Hegel’s view that social freedom involves reconciliation with the modern division of labor, which in turn requires membership in ‘estates’, and his thoughts on their role in the state. While subsequent Left Hegelian thinkers reject these institutions as authoritarian, the melancholic tenor of much Frankfurt School social theory stems partly from their view that Class divisions are not only entrenched, but also ‘latent’ and therefore not amenable to reconciliation through the political process that Hegel envisions. Habermas’ conception of ‘interchange roles’ between the system and the lifeworld as sites of reification, but potentially of democratic contestation, synthesizes these lines of thought, by conceptualizing how the political mediation of Class-based interests can be an ongoing possibility amidst a condition of latent Class Conflict.
-
reifying and reconciling Class Conflict from hegel s estates through habermas interchange roles
European Journal of Social Theory, 2013Co-Authors: Todd HedrickAbstract:This article examines the role of Class divisions in critical social theory through Habermas’ theory of law and democracy. It begins with Hegel’s view that social freedom involves reconciliation with the modern division of labor, which in turn requires membership in ‘estates’, and his thoughts on their role in the state. While subsequent Left Hegelian thinkers reject these institutions as authoritarian, the melancholic tenor of much Frankfurt School social theory stems partly from their view that Class divisions are not only entrenched, but also ‘latent’ and therefore not amenable to reconciliation through the political process that Hegel envisions. Habermas’ conception of ‘interchange roles’ between the system and the lifeworld as sites of reification, but potentially of democratic contestation, synthesizes these lines of thought, by conceptualizing how the political mediation of Class-based interests can be an ongoing possibility amidst a condition of latent Class Conflict.
James R. Barrett - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
-
the heritage of social Class and Class Conflict on chicago s south side
On Location, 2012Co-Authors: James R. BarrettAbstract:This essay examines the ways that Chicagoans commemorated or ignored their working-Class past and looks at Pullman, Haymarket, and the “Back of the Yards” as particularly apt examples of this remembering and forgetting. When heritage is associated with the built environment, as in Pullman, a carefully planned company town and the site in 1894 of one of the most famous labor Conflicts in the US history, the emphasis is usually on the architecture and preservation of tangible reminders of the industrial past. In many evocations of industrial Chicago, however, the people themselves are lost, overwhelmed by the giant machinery and plants. Sometimes, it is contention over the appropriate commemoration of events involving Class Conflict that causes important sites to go largely unmarked for decades, as was the case with Chicago’s famous Haymarket Square, the site of the great strikes of 1886, commemorated as the international workers’ celebration of May Day. But the need to remember, along with the increasing physical deterioration and the erasure of the working-Class past through gentrification and deindustrialization, requires that we find the means to mark, preserve, and interpret aspects of working-Class heritage and the historical significance of places like these.
-
The Heritage of Social Class and Class Conflict on Chicago’s South Side
On Location, 2011Co-Authors: James R. BarrettAbstract:This essay examines the ways that Chicagoans commemorated or ignored their working-Class past and looks at Pullman, Haymarket, and the “Back of the Yards” as particularly apt examples of this remembering and forgetting. When heritage is associated with the built environment, as in Pullman, a carefully planned company town and the site in 1894 of one of the most famous labor Conflicts in the US history, the emphasis is usually on the architecture and preservation of tangible reminders of the industrial past. In many evocations of industrial Chicago, however, the people themselves are lost, overwhelmed by the giant machinery and plants. Sometimes, it is contention over the appropriate commemoration of events involving Class Conflict that causes important sites to go largely unmarked for decades, as was the case with Chicago’s famous Haymarket Square, the site of the great strikes of 1886, commemorated as the international workers’ celebration of May Day. But the need to remember, along with the increasing physical deterioration and the erasure of the working-Class past through gentrification and deindustrialization, requires that we find the means to mark, preserve, and interpret aspects of working-Class heritage and the historical significance of places like these.